The leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party’s youth organization, José Pedro Pereira, allegedly urinated on a police car last week-end. He was on a night on the town when one of his friends bragged to have peed on the police car, which had indeed just been peed on. He refused to be identified and was about to be taken to the Police station when Pereira stepped up, claiming he had been the one who pissed on the car. He then taunted the police agents, saying among other things, that he would phone the current police chief, Oliveira Martins. Oliveira Martins, refused to comment on the case.
The Police Trade Union took a different line. The chair of the Trade Union, Dionísio Câmara said that the police are constantly being mistreated by the (ruling) party, particularly during election campaigns and at inaugurations. ‘The Police is not commanded by the Regional Government, but by the central power and it has its own hierarchy. It’s necessary that this hierarchy makes sure that the laws are obeyed and does not allow itself to be influenced by any political party’. He considered it extremely serious that Pereira had used the Chief of Police’s name to intimidate officers. ‘He is following in the footsteps of his leader’ who acts with an authoritarian attitude, as if he has the sovereign power to order all the regional forces about.
President Jardim, at an official ceremony, the inauguration of a pizza house, expressed solidarity with his youth leader and assured he would candidate him for the forthcoming elections. Jardim claims Pereira is merely a victim of persecution, led by the Diário newspaper - another good reason for him to back Pereira: ‘The enemies of my enemies are my friends’, he said.
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